The Propellerhead Music Making Month has been receiving huge plaudits as it continues to deliver an innovative program of new tutorials, artist Q&As and advice on music making every day throughout May. The majority of events are streamed live on the web to allow user interaction, with the ability to replay past events.


The campaign is now entering its final week with topics as varied as:

Your Music in TV/Film/Games
Indie bands and producers around the world knew very little of the publishing business ten years ago. It was something that happened upon you if you had enough success to gain the attention of a movie director or TV producer. Today there is hardly any musician who doesn't know about the importance of music publishing. Kim Nieva of Engine House Music will give you tips on how to get your music licensed for film, TV, and video game soundtracks.

Simple But Effective Harmonies
The Neptune pitch corrector in Record 1.5 will fix your bad notes and steer your performance back from an unusable take to a keeper vocal. But when it comes to creative uses for Neptune, its ability to create harmonies from midi notes can give your tracks an entirely new life and dimension to them. If you've never done vocal harmony before, Jonas will show you some simple but effective harmonies you can add to your vocal line.

Lyric Writing Masterclass
Amber Rubarth isn't just an amazing indie musician, singer/songwriter, and recording artist. She's an awarding winning lyricist too! In 2006 the legendary trio of Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, and Robert Smith awarded Amber 1st place in the International Songwriting Competition for her lyrical ability. She'll be joining us to discuss how she approaches lyric writing and give us all some creative tips. Bring your notepad!

Gerald's Live Reason Rig
A pioneer of Acid House in the 1990s, Gerald Simpson has been a mainstay of the club scene ever since. Nowadays, when A Guy Called Gerald performs he runs dual laptops both running Reason. The setup allows him to go further than simply controlling 2-track masters like most DJs. He's able to interact with individual elements of the song and adapt the mix to the crowd. We'll be checking out his live rig in action and seeing how it works.


The week's full schedule is:

  • Your Music in TV/Film/Games
  • Create Any Sound You Can Imagine
  • Creative Frequency Splitting
  • Fan Requested Topic delivered by James Bernard
  • Simple But Effective Harmonies
  • Everything is Music
  • Lyric Writing Masterclass
  • Live From the Nashville SynthLab
  • Gerald's Live Reason Rig

To see replays of past events and the full schedule of upcoming events please visit www.propellerheads.se/mmm